{"id":194623,"date":"2026-03-17T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194623\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:52:07","slug":"5-cap-on-out-of-state-enrollment-at-fla-universities-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194623\/","title":{"rendered":"5% Cap on Out-of-State Enrollment at Fla. Universities Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from out of state make up 20\u00a0percent of the University of Florida\u2019s undergraduate student body.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Pollard\/iStock Editorial\/Getty Images Plus<\/p>\n<p>Florida lawmakers nixed a proposal to limit how out-of-state enrollment at some Florida universities, The Orlando Sentinel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/03\/13\/cap-out-of-state-enrollment-at-floridas-top-universities-senate-says-no\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/03\/13\/cap-out-of-state-enrollment-at-floridas-top-universities-senate-says-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The measure in House Bill 1279 would have limited the nonresident undergraduate enrollment at the state\u2019s pre-eminent research universities to 5\u00a0percent. Out-of-state students made up 15\u00a0percent of Florida State University\u2019s most recent first-year class and 20\u00a0percent at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>State law currently caps out-of-state enrollment at 10\u00a0percent on average across Florida\u2019s 12 public universities, the Sentinel reported. The proposed cap would\u2019ve been costly for the affected institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida House passed the cap earlier this month as part of a broader education bill. The Senate removed the provision before voting to pass the overall legislation.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"subscribe-box-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/themes\/custom\/ihe\/assets\/images\/svg\/envlope.svg\" alt=\"subscribe\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from out of state make up 20\u00a0percent of the University of Florida\u2019s undergraduate student body. Bryan Pollard\/iStock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18025,113,684,28,30,29,18024,960,115],"class_list":["post-194623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}